How to Make Homemade Yogurt

It's easy to make yogurt at home, but it helps to understand the process. Here's how to make most kinds of yogurt, including luscious thick styles like Greek yogurt and labneh.

Homemade Labaneh (Labneh)

A Middle Eastern staple, this strained and lightly salted yogurt is often served at breakfast or as a snack drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with za’atar, and scooped up with pita bread.

Creamy Whipped Greek Yogurt

One of our favorite summertime tricks is to make a batch of whipped Greek yogurt, which is exactly what it sounds like—a cross between airy whipped cream and dense yogurt. We love it with the caramel notes of golden syrup, but it works with honey, maple syrup, or molasses as well. Chill and serve with fresh fruit as a parfait, or use as a topping for pound cake, pie, or French toast.

Easy Homemade Greek Tzatziki

It's easy to make delicious, homemade Greek Tzatziki with yogurt, cucumbers, and garlic. Perfect as a dip with warm pita and veggies, condiment for sandwiches, and sauce for grilled meats and seafood.

Homemade Ricotta

You may not have the supply of whey you need for a true homemade ricotta, but with milk and an acid, you can make something very similar and totally delicious.

Frozen Yogurt

The best frozen yogurt is also the easiest to make. It's just full-fat yogurt and sugar, and churns up into a creamy yet fresh-tasting frozen dessert that does justice to all of yogurt's natural tangy flavors.

Homemade ricotta

Ricotta is a staple in my fridge. It's great with pasta, in salads, as a side or on toast. Here is how you can make it at home. 

No-Bake Greek Yogurt Cheesecake

With tart Greek yogurt, whipped cream, and airy meringue, this may just be the fluffiest cheesecake around.

Mediterranean Flavors: Tzatziki

You only need to follow a recipe once or twice when making tzatziki before the process becomes almost automatic. Thick tangy yogurt; crisp, sweet cucumber; pungent garlic and dill; sunny lemon. The formula, a staging ground for countless dip platters and a condiment for the thousands of gyros dished up daily, is as familiar to us now as salsa and ketchup. And its preparation is about as intuitive—recipes matter less than solid ingredients and a willingness to dip a tasting finger along the way.

Greek Yogurt Cake

Like pound cake, but lighter, Greek yogurt cake from Mad Hungry Cravings gets its moistness from its namesake and floral sweetness from honey. Make this the night before a big breakfast.